Around the clock to restore power, fix homes, and clear roads. Emergency workers saying clean up could take days. We have night Team Coverage of tonights extensive clean up effort beginning with a night team tim caputo for us live in concorde. Tim. You guys mentioned this touch, this tornado touched down in less than a minute. It disappeared. But look at all damage. Two things happen some trees snapped straight in half others like this bigger one behind me uprooted with some branch but not all of them but everyone here know it is could have been much worse. Even after 15 straights hours of clearing downed trees there still lot of work left. Early monday morning powerful tornado ripped a half mile long path in marpt of seconds. It was an extraordinary amount of damage for such a short hit. Hundreds trees were snapped in half for swirling 100 mile an hour e f 1 tornados. Came down. Tornado carve ad path about about as wide a football field through mostly wooded areas in historic concorde
Rains this winter. Could cause millions of dollars of damage. Pam kron 4s Maureen Kelly reports, fema also laid out what it is doing to try and lessen the impact. Reporter the worst case scenerio for this coming winter is being nino. Which was the strongest event on record. It was an expensive. And deadly rainfall season. 40 counties were declared diaster areas. Reporter as floodwaters rose and mudslides came crashing down. 17 people were killed and. A hundred thousand people were evacuated. The state racked up 883Million Dollars in damage. Along the coast. Homes were lost due to erosion. Reporter this time around its believed that california will have more wet days. And they will be wetter than usual. And higher snow levels. The report says there is a substainial risk for levee failure. They are also expecting significant high tides. Reporter there is increased concern that soil hardening from the drought could make flooding more widespread in valley and urban areas. Because the sun b
The National Weather service is indicating that theres strong thunderstorms embedded in these showers and thats unfortunate because we could be dealing with the possibility of tornadic activities. Ill be here for you today just like i was yesterday. Stormy at times. Dont leave home without the rain gear. We cant rule out that chance of tornado activity. Regardless well be dealing with heavy rain, gusty winds and a few storms today. Constance . Of course when t weather is bad, the roadways are bad. I95 northbound off of pembroke road. Folks zooming by without any issues but remember, you guys, when the roadways are wet, do not sleep in, get going. We dont want to be to be rushing into work and gettttg in these little fenderbender out here. I95 northbound at pembroke road. When we saw the picture affecting our travel speeds. I95 northbound at 6 street has cleared up. A really bad crash eastbound westbound shut down at pines boulevard. This at 114th avenue. So if you live in the pines are
Just moved through allentown. This is actually severe. The National Weather service has a Severe Thunderstorm Warning out for this storm until 6 15 as it moves slowly to the southeast about 20 miles an hour. That is the core of the storm. It is west of allentown. A likely seeing hail with this storm and wind gusts damaging wind gusts close to 50 miles an hour as it moves southeast about 20 miles an hour. So timing of this as these storms push south allentown about 6 07. And then moving through Lehigh County into upper Montgomery County by about 6 30 or so. The warning only in effect until 6 15 definitely a strong storm here very small as it moves to the southeast. Now this is a line developing here. Concern with this because of the shape of this. Means the bow out could get organize. We could see significant wind damage as this pushes through these western suburbs. There is some lightning these are thunderstorms moving through Lancaster County and well continue to move into western che
Off, lets go to david murphy and matt pellman for weather and traffic. Reporter rain has arrived this morning at times it will be heavy always it moves through the region. Right now we have yellow west of wilmington. If you take a look out wider theres additional precipitation out to the south and west of us that looks heavy. Basically between now and through the rush hour we are looking at periods of heavy rain and i expect ponding and puddling on the roads ways. As the rain continues to build well get the ponding on the roads that tend to slow us down. This morning were looking at temperatures in the cool range. 52 degrees in philadelphia. You can see how the winds are rolling in off the ocean. 47 in allentown. 5 in wilmington, 48 in trenton. 57 degrees in dover. However, those winds are going to turn around more from the southeast and eventually the southwest today that that will raise the numbers. For the backup forecast cloudy skies and rain in spots, we have more rain than the. T